<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 15 2008, 01:09 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Lex, they have the highest divorce rates in the
nation. (Not just Cali)
Jumk, here's how those statistics work.
If you are married in a church, you're marriage is a Christian marriage because it is a minister ordained ceremony. If you are married in the courthouse, you are whatever religion you claim to be.
I think you and I can both agree that everyone who gets married in a church is not a devoted member of the religion.
Furthermore, conservatives for the most part don't give a damn about civil unions. Civil unions could have the exact same privileges and legal recognition had by marriage, very few people would care. However, if you take two men and you try to marry them, there is a problem.
Marriage is a heterosexual institution. Heterosexuals invented it. Gays/Lesbians can have whatever they want. They can make something better than marriage with more privileges and I wouldn't give a damn.
I know in today's futuristic existential society, it is uncool to look any farther than 5 minutes in the past
, but if you go back to the root of the problem, you will find the government is to blame. The government has no right to monitor marriage or most sexual behaviors. They told women if they didn't get a government marriage they would end up beaten and with no husband and many children, they told men they wouldn't get tax cuts/credits. Everyone signed up.
Why gays/lesbians are so eager to identify themselves with the government is completely beyond me. The government has kicked their ..... on many occasions for the purposes of rounding up a few extra votes.
Like I said, don't look more than 5 minutes into the past. History never repeats itself.
I think you will find the secondary problem lies in people who can't handle rejection. They are so horribly unimaginative and self-unempowered the only thing they can do is beg for equal treatment at someone else's table.
Get a life. You have the political clout to lobby for something much bigger and better. Equality is such a hoax. It fundamental foundation lies in the belief "I deserve more".
Let's see where that road leads. The life of excess has always been worthwhile in the past.